Been a heavy life : stories of violent men /
Presser, Lois.
Been a heavy life : stories of violent men / Lois Presser. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource. - - Critical perspectives in criminology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Self and story -- Offender identities, offender narratives -- Thinking about research effects -- Research methods when research is being researched -- Reform narratives : return of the good self -- Stability narratives : never a bad self -- Elastic narratives : creative integration -- Tales of heroic struggle -- The situated construction of narratives -- The power of stories.
Investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. Presser applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. She provides the discipline of criminology with two crucial frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction of offenders' own stories, and one for grasping the cultural meta-narratives that legitimize violence. From publisher description.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780252092183 9781283583169 9786613895615 661389561X
2019718606
GBA8A5127 bnb
014707793 Uk
Violence in men.
Abusive men.
Criminal behavior.
Electronic Books.
HM1116 / .B446 2008
Been a heavy life : stories of violent men / Lois Presser. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource. - - Critical perspectives in criminology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Self and story -- Offender identities, offender narratives -- Thinking about research effects -- Research methods when research is being researched -- Reform narratives : return of the good self -- Stability narratives : never a bad self -- Elastic narratives : creative integration -- Tales of heroic struggle -- The situated construction of narratives -- The power of stories.
Investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. Presser applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. She provides the discipline of criminology with two crucial frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction of offenders' own stories, and one for grasping the cultural meta-narratives that legitimize violence. From publisher description.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780252092183 9781283583169 9786613895615 661389561X
2019718606
GBA8A5127 bnb
014707793 Uk
Violence in men.
Abusive men.
Criminal behavior.
Electronic Books.
HM1116 / .B446 2008